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Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 19 - We Have a Winner!

The extra-long all-opening-credits round of the Filmbrain Screen Capture Quiz is finally over! 

Regular contestant Max G. was the lone voice in the wind this week as he (somehow!) recognized the blue curtain and moon behind it from the opening of Francis Ford Coppola's One From the Heart, a desert-island movie if ever there was one. 

This is the film that drove Coppola into bankruptcy, and forced him to take on studio fare such as the truly awful Jack. But you know what? It was worth it. Rebuilding Vegas on a soundstage allowed DP Vittorio Storaro to do unbelievable things with lights. And then of course there are the songs by Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle....sheer bliss. 

Congratulations to Max for getting a perfect score -- I'm thoroughly impressed. I'd also like to thank everybody else who participated in what turned out to be the most successful round yet!

Check back next week (or maybe in two...three...) for an all new round!

Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 19 - Tiebreaker 1

A quick correction to last week's post. There are in fact four people with perfect scores, not three as I had reported. 

Here's the first of the tiebreaker quizzes. Submit your answers to this address. Good luck!

Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 19 - We (Don't) Have a Winner!

A day (or two) late and a dollar short.

Wednesday came and went, as did Thursday. It was only late last night that I found the time to tally up the entries for the round. It appears there are three people who managed to get all sixteen correct, and as a result a tie-breaker round (or rounds) will be needed.

I'll have to spend some time this weekend thinking and searching for additional interesting title sequences. Check back on Wednesday for the first tie-breaker.

[Update: Forgot to include the answer to last week's quiz. It was of course The Mouse that Roared, hence the rodent on the pedestal that frightened away the Columbia Torch Lady.]

Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 19, Week 16

A variation of the 20th Century Fox logo on a Los Angeles billboard appears at the beginning of Mel Brooks' triumphant experiment, Silent Movie, from 1976. There were some pretty far-out guesses (Aliens?) but most managed to work it out.

I wrote a primer of sorts this week on the films of Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Suicide Club) over at Greencine Daily. It was meant to be peppered with quotes, but my allotted interview time with him was cut severely short. Very frustrating. I also participated in an email exchange with Fin de Cinema's Joe Bowman about Love Exposure, which will appear on The Auteurs Notebook sometime this week. It's been a week of Sono on the brain-o. [Update: Click here to read the discussion.]

Well, here we are at the final quiz of this extended round. I had hoped to close it with something from an end credits sequence, but couldn't find anything interesting enough on short notice.

This week: Another bit of fun with an iconic studio logo. Name the film. Submit your answers to this address. Good luck!

Filmbrain's Screen Capture Quiz: Round 19, Week 15

Not "3T" but a reversed French "ET", from the end credits that are the opening credits of bad boy Gaspar Noé's Irreversible. Only a few managed to identify it, but the range of answers was certainly interesting -- everything from Godard, to Hartley, to Miike and even Tom O'Horgan. Well spotted, fellow fans of rampant misanthropy.

The Smashing Pumpkins song referred to in the alt-text? The End is the Beginning is the End, of course.

This week: Where will you find this art-deco-ish version of the 20th Century Fox logo? Submit your answers to this address. Good luck!